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New BTS album racks up millions of listens within hours

K-pop band BTS became the first South Korean act to top the US singles chart.

SEOUL: Tens of millions of fans around the world raced to listen to the latest offering from BTS on Friday, as the K-pop sensation dropped their highly anticipated new album to a deluge of excitement.

Three hours after BE was made available on a simultaneous worldwide release, the video for first track Life Goes On — a song offering a message of hope in the face of the coronavirus pandemic — had been viewed almost 20 million times on YouTube.

“This is the best thing that has happened this year,” wrote one fan, among more than 560,000 comments.

“Just when I was starting to feel like trash again and wanting to leave this world, BTS drops this album,” another added.

“Their music saved me so many times and it…

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